Man flu kept me at home today, so I decided to do something ‘useful’ and go for a linkathon: Ed Yong discusses the effect of subject expectations in psychology experiments Nice Results, But What Did You Expect? At the beginning there was another article on The placebo phenomenon, and another one on The placebo defect.

If Big Data was last year's buzzword, Data Science may reach the same level of hype this year. There's no shortage of discussion about the high demand for data scientists, the term's usefulness as a designation, and even declarations of its "sexiness" as a career. And as with many terms that reach a critical mass on social media, data...

In case you missed them, here are some articles from June of particular interest to R users: You can create a Word document from a template and an R script with the R2DOCX package. Joe Rickert reviews books and other resources for learning about time series analysis in R. Timely Portfolio covers 15 years of history of time series...

LOYALTY PROGRAM CHOICE BASED ON DEPARTURE COUNT If you read Decision Science News, you’re probably a professor or grad student or researcher or policy type who flies around a lot to conferences, symposia, workshops, tutorials, summer schools, and all-hands meetings. You travel the globe to give talks and work with co-authors. All this flying around
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The useR!2013 conference in Albacete, Spain, will commence next Wednesday, 10 July, and on the day before Diego and I will give a googleVis tutorial. The following Monday, 15 July, the first R in Insurance event will take place at Cass Business School ...

Monday 1 July 2013 - 22:37
OpenAnalytics is once more proud sponsor of the yearly R User Conference and sent a strong delegation to present some of its recent work.
On Tuesday July 9 Tobias Verbeke and Stephan Wahlbrink give a pre-conference...

The functions detailed inside the piece of code below (in a Gist) has been useful for me when I had to calculate many possible scenarios of statistical power and sample size. The formulae were taken from the article of Samuels … Sigue leyendo →

Tomorrow (July 1, 2013), Google Reader will retire. I can imagine the shock this will be for the 5,821 followers of this site who uses Google Reader in order to followup on news and tutorials from the global R world. If you are have considering a more committed relationship with this site and didn’t know what to do –...

I put together a quick tutorial combining my two favorite things: finance and interactive visualizations. I show how to use the new dimplejs d3 library with rCharts to create some nice interactive plots of US Treasury yield data. ...